merchants and firms before the passing of this Law, and firms which used this designation before the passing of this Law may continue to use it until the 1st January, 1915. Know ye all, &c. GUSTAF. DECREE of the King of Sweden concerning the Protection of certain Marks which denote that a Vessel is set apart for the Help of the Wounded and Sick in Time of War.Stockholm, June 16, 1911. (Translation.) WE, Gustaf, &c., hereby make known that since by the conclusion of an international Convention on the 18th October, 1907, to which Sweden is a party, it was agreed that a military hospital ship should be painted white externally with a horizontal green stripe about 1 metres wide, also that a vessel which is equipped for hospital work in war by private or by certain officially acknowledged societies, should be painted white with a red stripe of similar breadth, we, in virtue of paragraph 5 of the Law concerning the protection of certain international hospital marks of the 2nd June of the current year, have found it good graciously to decree that what is laid down in the abovementioned Law with regard to the mark of the Red Cross shall also be valid with regard to the use of the mark on board ship, as has been stated above. This Royal decree comes into force on the 1st January, 1912. Know ye all, &c. GUSTAF. COPYRIGHT CONVENTION between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Hungary.-Signed at Budapest, January 30, 1912.‡ [Ratifications exchanged at Washington, September 16, 1912.] THE President of the United States of America, and His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, &c., and Apostolic King of Hungary, desiring to provide, between the *Vol. C, page 415. + Page 1023. Signed also in the Hungarian language. Series," No. 571. "United States Treaty United States of America and Hungary, for a reciprocal legal protection in regard to copyright of the citizens and subjects of the two countries, have, to this end, decided to conclude a Convention, and have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries: The President of the United States of America: Richard C. Kerens, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty; and His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia,. &c., and Apostolic King of Hungary Count Paul Esterházy, Baron of Galántha, Viscount of Frakno, Privy Councillor and Chamberlain, Chief of section in the Ministry of the Imperial and Royal House and of Foreign Affairs, and Dr. Gustavus de Tory, Secretary of State in the Royal Hungarian Ministry of Justice; Who, having communicated to each other their full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed as follows: ART. I. Authors who are citizens or subjects of one of the two countries or their assigns shall enjoy in the other country, for their literary, artistic, dramatic, musical and photographic works (whether unpublished or published in one of the two countries) the same rights which the respective laws do now or may hereafter grant to natives. The above provision includes the copyright control of mechanical musical reproductions. II. The enjoyment and the exercise of the rights secured by the present Convention are subject to the performance of the conditions and formalities prescribed by the laws and regulations of the country where protection is claimed under the present Convention; such enjoyment and such exercise are independent of the existence of protection in the country of origin of the work. III. The term of copyright protection granted by the present Convention shall be regulated by the law of the country where protection is claimed. IV. The present Convention shall be ratified and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible. V. The present Convention shall be put in force one month after the exchange of ratifications, and shall remain in force until the termination of a year from the day on which it may have been denounced. In faith whereof the Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention in two copies, each in the English and Hungarian languages, and have affixed thereto their seals. Done at Budapest, the 30th day of January, 1912. (L.S.) RICHARD C. KERENS. |